HP Contract Job Trends in London

HP
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London requiring knowledge or experience of HP products and/or services. It includes a benchmarking guide to contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited HP over the 6 months leading up to 13 June 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

The figures below represent the IT contractor job market in general and are not representative of contractor rates within Hewlett-Packard Company.

6 months to
13 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 375 297 321
Rank change year-on-year -78 +24 +46
Contract jobs citing HP 41 58 79
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.22% 0.47% 0.45%
As % of the Vendors category 0.53% 1.04% 1.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 23 37 54
10th Percentile - £148 £140
25th Percentile £154 £213 £250
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £325 £500 £350
Median % change year-on-year -35.00% +42.86% -22.22%
75th Percentile £497 £623 £498
90th Percentile £648 £1,095 £594
England median daily rate £295 £456 £375
% change year-on-year -35.34% +21.67% -11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 4 6
10th Percentile £18.07 £20.09 -
25th Percentile £19.85 £23.03 £18.13
Median hourly rate £25.77 £24.66 £20.97
Median % change year-on-year +4.50% +17.62% +7.51%
75th Percentile - - £23.80
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £20.09 £18.87 £20.97
% change year-on-year +6.47% -9.99% +7.51%

All Vendors
London

HP falls under the Vendor Products and Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring knowledge or experience of all vendor products and services in London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 7,802 5,554 7,264
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 41.40% 45.24% 41.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,133 3,595 4,982
10th Percentile £350 £325 £310
25th Percentile £425 £422 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £538 £538
Median % change year-on-year -2.33% - -4.44%
75th Percentile £638 £663 £650
90th Percentile £738 £775 £775
England median daily rate £505 £515 £518
% change year-on-year -1.94% -0.52% -1.49%
Number of hourly rates quoted 112 100 133
10th Percentile £18.75 £15.84 £13.91
25th Percentile £23.42 £22.50 £17.00
Median hourly rate £35.50 £28.60 £23.80
Median % change year-on-year +24.13% +20.17% -12.66%
75th Percentile £52.81 £44.69 £38.75
90th Percentile £81.25 £65.00 £65.00
England median hourly rate £33.99 £27.21 £24.00
% change year-on-year +24.92% +13.38% -37.66%

HP
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing HP relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in London.

HP job vacancy trend in London

HP
Daily Rate Trend in London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing HP.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing HP

HP
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing HP in London over the 6 months to 13 June 2026.

Daily rate histogram for HP in London

HP
Hourly Rate Trend in London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing HP.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing HP

HP
Contract Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing HP within the London region over the 6 months to 13 June 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Central London -21 7 £501 -9.00% 5
West London -22 4 £145 - 1
HP
England

HP
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 3 (7.32%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (4.88%) Confluence
3 1 (2.44%) SAS
Applications
1 1 (2.44%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (2.44%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (7.32%) BASE24
2 2 (4.88%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 10 (24.39%) Azure
2 7 (17.07%) AWS
3 5 (12.20%) Azure DevOps
4 4 (9.76%) GCP
5 2 (4.88%) IaaS
5 2 (4.88%) OpenShift
5 2 (4.88%) PaaS
6 1 (2.44%) Cloudflare
6 1 (2.44%) Entra ID
6 1 (2.44%) Rubrik
Communications & Networking
1 5 (12.20%) Firewall
2 4 (9.76%) DNS
2 4 (9.76%) VPN
3 3 (7.32%) DHCP
3 3 (7.32%) SMTP
4 1 (2.44%) Cisco Nexus
4 1 (2.44%) IPsec
4 1 (2.44%) iSCSI
4 1 (2.44%) SSL
4 1 (2.44%) VLAN
4 1 (2.44%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (7.32%) Amazon RDS
1 3 (7.32%) Big Data
1 3 (7.32%) NonStop SQL
2 2 (4.88%) Elasticsearch
3 1 (2.44%) Apache Hive
3 1 (2.44%) Base SAS
3 1 (2.44%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (2.44%) Hadoop
3 1 (2.44%) OLTP
3 1 (2.44%) Oracle Reports
3 1 (2.44%) SAS Data Integration Studio
3 1 (2.44%) SAS Enterprise Guide
Development Applications
1 7 (17.07%) JIRA
2 5 (12.20%) Selenium
3 3 (7.32%) Zephyr
4 2 (4.88%) Cypress.io
4 2 (4.88%) TestRail
5 1 (2.44%) Appium
5 1 (2.44%) JMeter
5 1 (2.44%) LoadRunner
5 1 (2.44%) Postman
5 1 (2.44%) REST Assured
5 1 (2.44%) Sonatype Nexus
5 1 (2.44%) TestDirector
General
1 8 (19.51%) Banking
2 6 (14.63%) Analytical Skills
2 6 (14.63%) Finance
3 5 (12.20%) Social Skills
4 2 (4.88%) Public Sector
5 1 (2.44%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (2.44%) Legal
5 1 (2.44%) Organisational Skills
5 1 (2.44%) Private Banking
Job Titles
1 8 (19.51%) Hardware Technician
2 6 (14.63%) Data Centre Engineer
2 6 (14.63%) Field Service Technician
2 6 (14.63%) Support Engineer
3 5 (12.20%) Break Fix Engineer
3 5 (12.20%) Hardware Engineer
4 4 (9.76%) Developer
4 4 (9.76%) Server Engineer
5 3 (7.32%) 3rd Line Engineer
5 3 (7.32%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
5 3 (7.32%) Analyst
5 3 (7.32%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 3 (7.32%) Test Manager
6 2 (4.88%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Support
6 2 (4.88%) Deskside Engineer
6 2 (4.88%) Deskside Support Engineer
6 2 (4.88%) Infrastructure Support
6 2 (4.88%) IT Engineer
6 2 (4.88%) Server Support
6 2 (4.88%) Test Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (9.76%) REST
2 2 (4.88%) Middleware
3 1 (2.44%) Microsoft Graph
3 1 (2.44%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 12 (29.27%) Data Centre
2 4 (9.76%) Legacy Systems
2 4 (9.76%) Management Information System
3 3 (7.32%) Clustering
3 3 (7.32%) PKI
3 3 (7.32%) Tandem
4 2 (4.88%) EMV
4 2 (4.88%) iPhone
4 2 (4.88%) Product Ownership
5 1 (2.44%) APACS
5 1 (2.44%) Cloud Native
5 1 (2.44%) EMC Centera
5 1 (2.44%) EMC VMAX
5 1 (2.44%) EMC VNX
5 1 (2.44%) IBM XIV
5 1 (2.44%) Linux Command Line
5 1 (2.44%) Onboarding
5 1 (2.44%) Smartphone
5 1 (2.44%) Symmetrix
5 1 (2.44%) Symmetrix DMX
Operating Systems
1 7 (17.07%) Windows
2 4 (9.76%) Linux
3 3 (7.32%) Windows Server
4 1 (2.44%) AIX
4 1 (2.44%) HPUX
4 1 (2.44%) Mac OS
4 1 (2.44%) Oracle Linux
4 1 (2.44%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (2.44%) Solaris
4 1 (2.44%) SUSE
4 1 (2.44%) Unix
4 1 (2.44%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (36.59%) Customer Service
2 9 (21.95%) Break/Fix
3 8 (19.51%) DevOps
3 8 (19.51%) Test Automation
4 7 (17.07%) End-to-End Testing
5 6 (14.63%) Migration
5 6 (14.63%) Problem-Solving
5 6 (14.63%) Test Management
5 6 (14.63%) User Acceptance Testing
6 5 (12.20%) Agile
6 5 (12.20%) Continuous Improvement
6 5 (12.20%) Regression Testing
6 5 (12.20%) Software Testing
6 5 (12.20%) Test Strategy
7 4 (9.76%) Defect Management
7 4 (9.76%) Integration Testing
7 4 (9.76%) Scenario Testing
7 4 (9.76%) Stakeholder Management
7 4 (9.76%) System Integration Testing
7 4 (9.76%) Test Planning
Programming Languages
1 5 (12.20%) SQL
2 4 (9.76%) PowerShell
3 3 (7.32%) C
4 2 (4.88%) COBOL
4 2 (4.88%) JavaScript
5 1 (2.44%) C++
5 1 (2.44%) Java
5 1 (2.44%) SAS Macro
Qualifications
1 9 (21.95%) Degree
2 5 (12.20%) Security Cleared
3 3 (7.32%) DV Cleared
3 3 (7.32%) ISTQB
4 2 (4.88%) BPSS Clearance
4 2 (4.88%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (2.44%) CCNP
5 1 (2.44%) CCSE
5 1 (2.44%) Cisco Certification
5 1 (2.44%) CISSP
5 1 (2.44%) CompTIA Security+
5 1 (2.44%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (2.44%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (21.95%) SLA
2 5 (12.20%) QA
3 4 (9.76%) Data Quality
4 3 (7.32%) ISO 8583
5 2 (4.88%) PCI DSS
6 1 (2.44%) GDPR
6 1 (2.44%) GRC
System Software
1 3 (7.32%) Active Directory
1 3 (7.32%) BitLocker
1 3 (7.32%) Hyper-V
1 3 (7.32%) Microsoft App-V
1 3 (7.32%) Terminal Services
1 3 (7.32%) VMware ESXi
1 3 (7.32%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (4.88%) Docker
3 1 (2.44%) EMC RecoverPoint
3 1 (2.44%) Firmware
3 1 (2.44%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 8 (19.51%) HP ALM
2 3 (7.32%) Ansible
2 3 (7.32%) vCenter Server
2 3 (7.32%) vMotion
3 2 (4.88%) Kubernetes
3 2 (4.88%) Nagios
3 2 (4.88%) Puppet
4 1 (2.44%) Avamar
4 1 (2.44%) Control-M
4 1 (2.44%) EMC VPLEX
4 1 (2.44%) NetBackup
4 1 (2.44%) PaperCut
Vendors
1 10 (24.39%) Dell
1 10 (24.39%) IBM
2 5 (12.20%) Microsoft
3 4 (9.76%) Oracle
4 3 (7.32%) Cisco
4 3 (7.32%) Citrix
4 3 (7.32%) Google
4 3 (7.32%) Symantec
4 3 (7.32%) VMware
5 2 (4.88%) 3PAR
5 2 (4.88%) NetApp
5 2 (4.88%) Red Hat
5 2 (4.88%) ServiceNow
6 1 (2.44%) Canon
6 1 (2.44%) EMC
6 1 (2.44%) Forcepoint
6 1 (2.44%) Juniper
6 1 (2.44%) Micro Focus
6 1 (2.44%) OpenText
6 1 (2.44%) Veritas